Chicken or the Egg: Who Is Influencing Whom? Are "Who to Follow" Recommendations Influencing YOU?

#SMCHAT for Wednesday, September 22nd, will take a look at the trend of "Who to Follow" recommendations. Bing just also added their own recommendations for "Who to Follow" via Bing Social. But, influence and popularity are different measures. Are those more popular being made more influential by the "Who to Follow" features? Are these features influencing you?

Do you follow "Who to Follow" recommendations? Do you find them relevant?

Do you feel the algorithms that produce these recommendations are providing you with recommendations for those that are more influential or popular? See “Please repeat: Influence is not Popularity” by Brian Solis.

Are the algorithms recommending "whom to follow" only making the popular more popular?